It is very important to keep the software on your iPad updated for best performance, newer features and security.
I would be suspicious at this point. Best performance? The next paragraph is even more obvious:
All you need is a computer with the latest version of iTunes and internet connection for updating your iPad software. It is important to say that during software update no data is lost.
The only software available from the link in this email, however, is for a Windows OS.
At this point, with the grammar and syntax flaws as well as the OS clue, you should know the email is an attack.
A victim of the attack will see Backdoor.Bifrose.AADY install a backdoor via explorer.exe that steals software license keys and passwords.
Helen Sharman, Britain’s first astronaut. Source: The Guardian, Alamy Stock PhotoAn information security post about poetry today, based on Valediction Forbidding Mourning by John Donne
AS virtuous men pass mildly away,
And whisper to their souls to go,
Whilst some of their sad friends do say,
“Now his breath goes,” and some say, “No.”
So let us melt, and make no noise, [5]
No tear-floods, nor sigh-tempests move;
‘Twere profanation of our joys
To tell the laity our love.
Moving of th’ earth brings harms and fears;
Men reckon what it did, and meant; [10]
But trepidation of the spheres,
Though greater far, is innocent.
The above metaphor gave me pause. The point seems to be that an inter-planetary event has far more significance yet is less stressful than an event on earth. Donne clearly wants it to be this way, to make a point about quiet goodbyes.
I suspect that if you tell someone that a “sphere” event is likely (e.g. meteor strike) they will find as much or more trepidation than events happening on earth. On the other hand, Donne perhaps knew this and was really implying that the greatest impacts are the least frequent and thus should not be feared with the same intensity (profanation) as frequent ones of less severity. He continues:
Dull sublunary lovers’ love
‘Whose soul is sense’cannot admit
Of absence, ’cause it doth remove [15]
The thing which elemented it.
But we by a love so much refined,
That ourselves know not what it is,
Inter-assur’d of the mind,
Care less, eyes, lips and hands to miss. [20]
Our two souls therefore, which are one,
Though I must go, endure not yet
A breach, but an expansion,
Like gold to aery thinness beat.
If they be two, they are two so [25]
As stiff twin compasses are two;
Thy soul, the fix’d foot, makes no show
To move, but doth, if th’ other do.
And though it in the centre sit,
Yet, when the other far doth roam, [30]
It leans, and hearkens after it,
And grows erect, as that comes home.
Such wilt thou be to me, who must,
Like th’ other foot, obliquely run;
Thy firmness makes my circle just, [35]
And makes me end where I begun.
Clever imagery within a poem of managing risk. The legs of the compass — one static as the other one roams and more erect when they are together — is a beautiful metaphor for continuity.
One of the most frustrating roles in security is being the one who has to rain on everyone’s parade. On the other hand, sometimes a dose of reality is required as Emo Phillips once quipped:
I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.
One of my favorite things about Craigslist is the haiku discussion forum. Craig, clearly a fan, occaisonally posts one of his own to his blog. I noticed this one on his Facebook page
Fog rolls down the hills; In the bright sunshine; Back to customer service.
My first suggested revision
In the bright sunshine
Fog rolls down the hills above;
Complaints wait for me
This felt like there was too much perpetual action, so here’s my second attempt
Bright sun rays break through
Fog rolling down hills above;
Complaints wait for me
I would prefer to make complaints appear sudden and abrupt, but the fact is the sun has a more temporary impact in foggy San Francisco and I’m sure Craig deals with a never ending flow of customer service issues…. Maybe complaints isn’t the word Craig would prefer, knowing how much he appreciates his users. I also miss the imagery of sitting in the sun. Third attempt
In the bright sunshine
Fog rolling down hills above;
My inbox awaits
Something is still not quite there. Drawing from the more formal rules of Japanese haiku, my fourth attempt
In the bright sunshine
Summer fog rolls down the hills;
My inbox awaits
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